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The Mark and the Void | The Mark and the Void is Paul Murray's madcap new novel of institutional folly, following the success of his wildly original breakout hit, Skippy Dies. While marooned at his ba

The Last Asylum. A Memoir of Madness in our Times | In July 1988, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, was admitted to what had once been England's largest psychiatric institution: Colne

Little Philosophers. Happiness with Aristotle | Answering life's big questions for little children, this board book explains Aristotle's beliefs about happiness and friendship in a simple, accessible

The Temple | A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Design

Ethics | 'The noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers ... ethically he is supreme' Bertrand Russell Published shortly after his death in 1677, the Ethics is Spinoza's greatest work - a full

The Jane Austen Book Club | A moving, wise and delightfully modern comedy of manners from the bestselling, Man Booker shortlisted author Karen Joy Fowler. Six people - five women and a man - meet once

The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry | Harold is an ordinary man who has passed through life, living on the side lines, until he goes to post a letter one day...and just keeps walking. This edition i

When We Were Birds | A gorgeously immersive, mesmerising and life-affirming literary debut - a love story and a ghost story set in modern day Trinidad Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly a

The Sign of Four | As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is

In a Lonely Place | Los Angeles, the late 1940's. A serial killer stalks the foggy streets at night ... Dix Steele, a former fighter pilot, moved to L.A. after the war, looking for a new life. But the

A Crowded Marriage | How many is too many? Dive into the hilarious, heartwarming bestseller from the author of A Cornish Summer There isn't room in a marriage for three . . . Painter Imogen is happily

The Damned | Joris-Karl Huysmans' shocking novel of an innocent's descent into a world of depraved, blasphemous rituals, The Damned (La-Bas) caused a scandal when it was first published in nineteenth-

White Teeth. Level 7 | Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the

The Portable Edgar Allan Poe | The Portable Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of the

My Name is Asher Lev | Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion. Into it he poured all the anguish and torment a Jew can feel when torn between the fait

Merry Christmas, Alex Cross | On the night before Christmas, Detective Alex Cross is at home celebrating with his family. But when Cross's phone rings, he knows that this won't be a merry Christmas. A

Seize the Day | Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is s

The Warden | Anthony Trollope's The Warden is the first of his well-loved Chronicles of Barsetshire, edited with an introduction and notes by Robin Gilmour in Penguin Classics. The tranquil atmosphere

A Marriage of Scandal | Even the approach to Christmas fails to excite restless Agnes Conway, the twenty-two-year-old manager of the sweet and tobacconist shops owned by her feckless father. There are

Everything Is Lies | What if your parents had been lying to you since the day you were born? Sophia's parents lived quiet, ordinary lives. At least she thought so, until she came home to discover her

Short Stories in French | This is an all new version of the popular PARALLEL TEXT series, containing eight pieces of contemporary fiction in the original French and in English translation. Including s

Notes on Nationalism | 'The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs' Biting and timeless reflections on patriotism, prejudice and power, from the

Breakfast at Tiffany's | Truman Capote's dazzling New York novel Breakfast at Tiffany's that inspired the classic 1961 film starring Audrey Hepburn is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Ess

Man in the High Castle | The most brilliant scifi mind on any planet, Rolling Stone. Philip Kindred Dick 192882 was born in Chicago, but lived most of his life in California. His career as a science f

Studies in Hysteria | The tormenting of the body by the troubled mind, hysteria is among the most pervasive of human disorders - yet at the same time it is the most elusive. Freud's recognition that h

Boy | Boy is Roald Dahl's extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life. 'An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Dracula | A masterpiece of the horror genre, Dracula also probes identity, sanity and the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire. It begins when Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Cou

A Study in Scarlet | 'There's a scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.' From the moment Dr J

A Merry Christmas and Other Christmas Stories | Louisa May Alcott's enchanting Christmas stories, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfect for giving as a gift. A Merry Christmas collects th

The Bootlegger | The Bootlegger is the seventh of Clive Cussler's bestselling Isaac Bell novels. It is 1920. Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly kill

Mencius | Mencius was one of the great philosophers of ancient China, second only in influence to Confucius, whose teachings he defended and expanded. The Mencius, in which he recounts his dialogues w

Revelations | Assassin's Creed: Revelations is the thrilling novelisation by Oliver Bowden based on the game series. Older, wiser and more deadly than ever, Master Assassin Ezio Auditore embarks on an

Chindit | The first personal account of the 1944 operations in Burma to be published, this reprint resurrects the extraordinary story of the Chindits. 1943. Major-General Orde Wingate startles the mil

Finding the Heart Sutra. Guided by a Magician, an Art Collector and Buddhist Sages from Tibet | The material world is itself emptiness. Emptiness is itself the material world. Powerful, mystical and c

A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas | Ranging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted imaginary sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on femal

The Card | One of fiction's greatest chancers - the story of Denry Machin and his unceasing, ingenious efforts to become a great man Set in the raw, Victorian world of the 'Five Towns', The Card tells

The Merchant of Prato. Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City | This extraordinary re-creation of the life of a medieval Italian merchant, Francesco di Marco Datini, is one of the greatest historical p

A Spell of Winter | Cathy and her brother, Rob, don't know why they have been abandoned by their parents. Alone in their grandfather's decaying country house, they roam the wild grounds freely with mi

The Saboteurs | With a burst of machine gun fire the assassins strike... When the Van Dorn Agency's top detective, Isaac Bell, thwarts a plot to kill a US Senator, the race is on to uncover who was be

Lost and Gone Forever | A man wakes in a cell. He doesn't know who he is or how long he has been here. He doesn't even know his name. All he knows is that someone has left the cell door open… Nevil Ha

The Enlightenment | Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old cocoon of pessimism and superstition and establish a mor

The Story of the Stone. Volume 3. The Warning Voice | The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. Di

A Short History of the World | Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is a brilliantly compelling account of the evolution of life and the development of the hum

Watching from the Dark | Aidan Poole logs onto his laptop late at night to Skype his girlfriend, Zoe. But to his horror, he realizes she is not alone. Completely helpless, all he can do is listen to t

Maigret's First Case | The profession he had always yearned for did not actually exist ... he imagined a cross between a doctor and a priest, a man capable of understanding another's destiny at first

Little Women | This Penguin Classics edition of Louisa May Alcott's inspiring tale of sisterhood, Little Women, is edited with an introduction by Elaine Showalter. The charming story of four 'little w

The Loss of the Ship Essex Sunk By a Whale | The gripping first-hand story of the disaster that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick and is the basis for a major new feature film, In the Heart of the Sea. In

The Anthropocene Reviewed. Essays on a Human-Centered Planet | A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestsellin

Shakespeare's Restless World. An Unexpected History in Twenty Objects | The Elizabethan age was a tumultuous time, when long-cherished certainties were crumbling and life was exhilaratingly uncertain.

Fish, Fishing and the Meaning of Life | In Fish, Fishing and the Meaning of Life Jeremy Paxman creates the perfect literary catch for fellow angling enthusiasts in this rich and varied anthology. Each

The Caspian Gates | The Caspian Gates is the fourth in Harry Sidebottom's captivating Warrior of Rome Series. AD262 - the Imperium is in turmoil after the struggle for the throne. Furthermore, Ephesus

Deceit and Self-Deception. Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others | Why lying to ourselves - and others - makes us human We lie to ourselves every day: about how well we drive, how much we're enjo

Hinch Yourself Happy. All the Best Cleaning Tips to Shine Your Sink and Soothe Your Soul | All the best cleaning tips to shine your sink and soothe your soul. Discover how to transform your home. Clea

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes | A collection of the most famous cases faced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless creation, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and

Catcher in the Rye | The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just be

Can You Keep A Secret? | Surviving the weekend depends on whether you can keep a secret . . . Lindsey hasn't spoken to Rachel in twenty years, not since her brother's eighteenth birthday party at thei

The Most Dammed Country in the World | In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. The courageous, unflinching speeches and writings collected in The Most Dam

Ikigai. Simple secret to a long and happy life | Find purpose, meaning and joy in your work and life We all have an ikigai. It's the Japanese word for 'a reason to live' or 'a reason to jump out of be

Moving Pictures | 'Holy Wood is a different sort of place . . . Here, the most important thing is to be important.' A new phenomenon is taking over the Discworld: moving pictures. Created by the alche

Maigret and the Man on the Bench | 'He was wearing a dark suit, a beige raincoat and on his feet, which were twisted at an odd angle, he wore yellow-brown shoes, which seemed out of keeping with a day

Big Boned | Lori Palmer is the new girl at Bay Water High, where students prize glossy hair, beach bodies, and school spirit above all else. She misses her old school-where her talent as an artist car

Numbers in the Dark | Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death.

Travelling Heroes. Greeks and their myths in the epic age of Homer | Robin Lane Fox's Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer proposes a new way of thinking about ancient Gr

Yesterday's Spy | The Cold War plays out in the shadow of the Second World War as old loyalties collide Sinister rumours link clandestine Arab arms dealing with a hero of the French resistance. Time t